{"id":1970,"date":"2010-10-15T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2010-10-15T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:55:21","slug":"the-boston-globe-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-boston-globe-asks","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Globe asks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2010\/09\/27\/are_we_raising_a_generation_of_nincompoops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are We Raising a Generation of Nincompoops?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second-graders who can&#8217;t tie shoes or zip jackets. Four-year-olds in Pull-Ups diapers. Five-year-olds in strollers. Teens and preteens befuddled by can openers and ice-cube trays. College kids who&#8217;ve never done laundry, taken a bus alone or addressed an envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? And do we have only ourselves to blame? Or are some of these things simply the result of kids growing up with push-button technology in an era when mechanical devices are gradually being replaced by electronics?<\/p>\n<p>Paul talks with Dr. Mark Bauerlein, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dumbest-Generation-Stupefies-Americans-Jeopardizes\/dp\/1585426393\" target=\"_blank\">The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies\u00a0Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future<\/a>,\u00a0today at 4:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are We Raising a Generation of Nincompoops? Second-graders who can&#8217;t tie shoes or zip jackets. Four-year-olds in Pull-Ups diapers. Five-year-olds in strollers. Teens and preteens befuddled by can openers and ice-cube trays. College kids who&#8217;ve never done laundry, taken a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-boston-globe-asks\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-popular-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}